TNAG-1368-FCO40-1814-Constitutional-reforms-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 18

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Statements by Chinese

Officials

Constitutional Reforms (24)

Statements by Government News Comments/Editorials

Officials

Statements/Comments

by others

24.11.85 (Cont'd)

25.11.85

26.11.85

(HK Economic Journal):

It will be in the

interest of HK, China and UK to find a solution which could allow Britain/HK to continue to administer HK while ensuring the

compatibility between the Basic Law and the future political development.

(Sing Pao): The pace of the current political reforms was slow and gradual. Unless political reform was suspended for the time being, it could not progress on the

foundation of the Basic

Law as the Basic Law had not been drafted.

(Central and Western DB chairman Vincent Ko): Political reforms should be on the agenda of the JLG so as to dispel worries of both sides.

(Lawyer Kenneth Chow Chan-kei, in three articles in Wen Wei Po): A political system acceptable to HK could only be found through wide consultation and

discussion.